How Social Platforms Can Address The Youth Mental Health Crisis
Forbes March 17, 2025
NSCA member Candice Odgers is cited in Forbes explaining that research suggests broader societal challenges may have a more significant impact on teen wellbeing than social media. The article proposes that social media companies can help support positive mental health in teens by giving platform users more choices, providing evidence-based supports, and creating approachable solutions.
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April 16, 2025
“The evidence linking sleep and mental health is a lot tighter, more causal, than the evidence for social media and mental health,” Co-Executive Director Andrew Fuligni explains in a new Associated Press article about the importance of promoting healthy sleep during adolescence.
April 16, 2025
NSCA member Jacqueline Nesi is interviewed in a New York Times op-ed about how AI chatbots might affect young people by taking key peer roles, and why we should consider regulation backed by lawmakers and research. In the article, Nesi suggests that more research is needed on how these new technologies affect young people specifically, and these results may help us better tailor and scaffold their experiences with them.
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